Stuart Gray

Turning off notifications is the main one, with an “off by default” principle.

Some are genuinely useful, so I’d never say none, just pick them selectively e.g. I allow bank spending notifications, even though most are annoying, because I’d rather be aware of an unexpected transaction sooner.

a google calendar invite can own your machine via claude desktop. cvss 10.0. zero click. anthropic declined to fix it. i use claude with extensions every day. i can't stop reading that last sentence. https://layerxsecurity.com/blog/claude-desktop-extensions-rce/ https://mindpattern.ai

New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice | StateScoop A bill under consideration in New York would provide a private right of action, allowing people to file lawsuits against chatbot owners who violate the law.

The latest NY chatbot bill would bar chatbots from conveying information that could fall within the scope of a licensed profession.

It’s basically a censorship bill disguised as licensure protection.

statescoop.com/new-york-bil...

I’m not discounting any of that, I’m simply focused on the lack of prompt injection in the wild.

Don’t you think it’s slightly strange we haven’t heard it mentioned in post-incident reviews?

people hawking “secure” email are not to be trusted, exhibit 9000

The interesting part of all this to me is the prompt injection.

It’s a well known LLM issue, and there’s been a lot of speculation about why we haven’t seen prominent examples of it deployed in anger in the wild, not just a PoC.

This is the first I’ve seen.

Seen any others? @simonwillison.net

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

As usual, @simonwillison.net to the rescue simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/5/c...

Interesting discussion on HN. If I see a painting of a sunset, and I paint a sunset, ≠ copyright violation. If I study a codebase (or a closed-source end product) and go off and rewrite it on my own, ≠ license violation. Does this change if I use a coding agent to help me?

I worked in retail while I was at college ~35 years ago.

I can’t say that organised theft rings was a thing back then, but we had some very brazen & prolific shoplifters - quiet spot, large bag, slide everything of a clothing rail into it & away.

I assume it was sold at car boot sales back then.

instructive to compare the default outputs in diff. languages across a range of dev tasks.

That shows you where the quality floor is, and what you get by default if you don’t have strict guidance or prompts covering it.

Language choice def matters, and varies somewhat between models.

I’ve not tested go so I’m not sure where it tends to sit support wise, but generally speaking Python is nearly always best supported & Rust tends to sit in the middle of the pack.

They both improve with guidance, but it’s especially

I’m not sure about YouTube but I assume it’s a combination of the format, the types of video that gain most views, huge volume making switching cheap & easy, and conveying that in a single image.

Closest analogy I can think of is those cheap weekly soap/gossip-focused magazine covers in newsagents.

1. A short thread on a Bluesky phenomenon that might be described as "They are a dead-eyed cultist who must be cast out lest the heresy take root!" OP has blocked me for mocking them - I'd usually obscure their name but since they themselves were quote-dunking to demand someone else be blocked ...

This is conflating two related but separate things.

Yes, the questions have been around for a while across all models.

The question as posed was about an increase in their number, not claiming they were new.

Interesting… I wonder if this is a direct result of OpenAI introducing advertising to ChatGPT?

Pretty much every website or app that relies on Ad revenue introduces UI patterns designed to increase use & retention, with a goal of serving more ads in the process.

It’s hard to conclude otherwise.

“Now we have a faster horse”, to shred that infamous Ford quote.

How Claude remembers your project - Claude Code Docs Give Claude persistent instructions with CLAUDE.md files, and let Claude accumulate learnings automatically with auto memory.

The docs do describe nested directory support, and also multiple files outside your project (for cross project content):

“CLAUDE.md files in subdirectories load on demand when Claude reads files in those directories.”

code.claude.com/docs/en/memo...

Secretary Rubio's remarks indicate that Israel put U.S. forces in harm's way by insisting on attacking Iran. And the administration was complicit—joining their war instead of talking them down.

This is unacceptable of the President, and unacceptable of a country that calls itself our ally.

The end result.

github.com/dollspace-ga...

It makes it look like the majority of Sonnet 4.6s improvement, and to a lesser degree, Opus 4.6s, rides of the back of increased reasoning.

A factor that’s recently been gaining attention because it’s not captured by benchmarks, leaving a ‘loophole’ that makes direct comparisons harder :/

Not sure what Anthropic’s intention is, but the initial benchmark testing showed that Sonnet 4.6 used double the number of tokens Opus 4.6 did to reach their respective scores

Sonnet 4.6 vs. 4.5 was worse at nearly 5x more tokens.

Obv. RW results will depend on your prompts/use cases.

I see Trump is continuing to follow the tried and tested mafia-style playbook.

One of his favourites:

“Nice [country/state/institution/corporation/job] you’ve got there, it’d be a real shame if anything happened to it.”

Woozle effect The Woozle effect, also known as evidence by citation, occurs when a source is widely cited for a claim that the source does not adequately support, giving said claim undeserved credibility

I had to look this up

New chapter of my Agentic Engineering Patterns guide. This one is about having coding agents build custom interactive and animated explanations to help fight back against cognitive debt simonwillison.net/guides/agent...

This shouldn’t be a surprise for anyone paying even a little bit of attention to recent US & UK politics.

However, it seems clear Reform are going to cry foul over every local & national election loss going forward, and use it to further whip up racial division through a compliant right wing media.

Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Anthropic's response to the Secretary of War and advice for customers

Incredibly proud of our team at @anthropic.com and the work we’re doing. In many ways, this shows how fortunate I am to be working alongside some of the smartest folks in the industry that don’t shy away from doing the right thing. It’s a one-of-a-kind place.

www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

Doll would really love it if everyone got chainlink to the required levels so doll could quallify to get this. github.com/dollspace-ga...

can’t compete on technical excellence, but equally a very telling one once you know the driver.

It’s the same one lawyers use when they have a weak legal case and appeal to emotion & public reaction instead.

It’s also a source of constant amusement that, despite his billions & self proclaimed brilliance, he continues to lag behind all frontier model providers.

And that the inherent nature of the product makes it impossible to hide.

Instead he resorts to shock & awe, which is a valid tactic when you